A patient-centered platform for patients managing their health outcomes

Promptly aims to create a Patient Community that shares valuable data on patients’ own outcomes in surgeries and treatments reported through standardized and scientifically validated medical questionnaires – Patient-Reported Outcome Measure. Promptly has been selected to MED.IDEAS support and will work on the optimization of services provided in the Cardiology area. The project will provide tools for patients to manage their diseases, to perceive them and to anticipate their outcomes after each treatment, medication or surgery. It is also intended to obtain valid information that can be used by providers in Cardiology (such as doctors, hospitals or insurance companies) in order to improve their value proposition provided to patients.

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A patient-centered platform for patients managing their health outcomes

The simplification of the calculation of the percentage of body fat (PBT) in the service of cardiology.

What is the project: Lipowise is a smart tool for rigorous and fast body fat assessment, combining a state-of-the-art wireless skinfold caliper technology with a powerful cloud-based analytical and monitoring platform for low-cost and accurate body fat assessment for use by professionals. The selection of the project in the CARDIO area of MED.IDEAS will allow the development of the medical polymeric prototype, the development of software to support the instrument and a pilot study in the area of Cardiology with one of the partners of NORTEXCEL.

The 3D Heart-on-Chip project aims to provide the industrial, academic and scientific community with a new tool for generating in vitro testing cardiovascular models. Unlike conventional models, these new models will be physiologically more realistic, less costly, more versatile and more adaptable to the requirements of preclinical studies, in drug discovery / optimization, in diagnosis and in personalized medicine. 3D Heart-on-Chip is one of the selected CARDIO award projects.

Portable device for early differential diagnosis of myocardial infarction

The Heart at Tech project consists on the development of a portable, high-sensitivity device capable of detecting minimal variations in the concentration of molecules that rise in the blood when there is a heart attack. With this, there will be a faster evaluation of the clinical condition. The device works by introducing disposable consumables with the patient’s blood sample and integrating an innovative nanotechnology-based detection system. The combination of high sensitivity detection with the portability of the equipment, allows reducing the diagnosis delay time. Heart at Tech is one of the selected projects for the CARDIO area.

CPR – Personal Trainer is a simulator that promotes self-training for skills acquisition in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and can be considered a high-quality complement of the traditional training method. Several studies show that, due to irregular and inefficient training, CPR manoeuvres are often inefficiently performed, impairing the optimal outcome of the victim. Thus, CPR.PT is a low-cost device for CPR self-training with automated feedback, providing performance metrics with specific recommendations to improve the technical manoeuvres. CPR – Personal Trainer is one of the selected projects for the CARDIO area.